46051 - Health Education (BO)

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Midwifery (cod. 9201)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the module, the student possesses the ability to apply knowledge and understanding in promoting and supporting women's health with: 1) adequate information on health promotion and responsible  procreation; 2) prevention in healthcare and oncology; 3) promotion of healthy lifestyles and self-management-oriented care systems.

Course contents

Course Syllabus:

  1. Definitions in health education: promotion-prevention-education
  2. Health determinants
  3. Methodology: how to educate about health?
  4. Healthy lifestyles
  5. Vaccinations in various stages of life
  6. Prevention of accidents
  7. Contraception
  8. Prevention of STDs
  9. Cancer prevention
  10. Menstruation and menopause
  11. Prevention of perinatal mental distress

Readings/Bibliography

PROMUOVERE SALUTE. Principi e strategie. Patrizia Lemma. Il Pensiero Scientifico Editore, 2018.

Educare alla salute e all'assistenza. Manuale operatori. Mondadori Bruno, 2018

Educazione alla salute. Progetto per una nuova pedagogia sociale. O. Di Carlo. ARACNE editrice, 2010.

SALUTE E NASCITA. Le basi della salutofisiologia. La salutogenesi in gravidanza. Verena Schmid. SEAO edizioni, 2021.

Mestruazioni. La forza di guarigione del ciclo mestruale dal menarca alla menopausa. Alexandra Pope. Terra Nuova edizioni, 2007.

Linee guida neoplasia della mammella, AIOM, 2021.

Linee guida carcinoma dell'ovaio, AIOM, 2021.

Linee guida neoplasie dell'utero: endometrio e cervice, AIOM, 2022.

LINEE GUIDA PER LO SCREENING E LA DIAGNOSI DEL TUMORE DELLA MAMMELLA (ADOLOPMENT LINEE GUIDA EUROPEE). SNLG, 2022.

La prevenzione degli incidenti domestici in età infantile, SNLG ISS, 2022.

Linee guida menopausa, SNLG Regioni, 2015.

Linee guida di prevenzione oncologica. Alimentazione, obesità e attività fisica, SNLG Regioni, 2015.

Linee guida per una sana alimentazione. CREA, 2018.

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Teaching methods

Frontal lessons

Role playing

Readings and in-depth analysis

Assessment methods

Written exam with short-answer questions

Teaching tools

Slides, videos, and supplementary documents.

Office hours

See the website of Cristina Fortini

SDGs

Good health and well-being Quality education Gender equality Responsible consumption and production

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.